[tomohawk]

It would not have solved the deployment issue. It is very nice to only have to deal with dependencies once, when building (when using go). In java, you have to deal with both build time and run time dependencies. It's really nice not having to lug around and package up a jvm, jars, ...

Each java based microservice requires its own packaging of jvm, jars, etc. Without this it is not easy to replace individual microservices, as the cross dependencies between the microservices will take away a big advantage of going that route.

Go provides this level of deployment separation for free by default.